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Landkreis Harz

Tönnigsstein (atonement or murder stone from 1537)

Landkreis Harz

Tönnigsstein (atonement or murder stone from 1537)

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Tönnigsstein (atonement or murder stone from 1537)

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Location: Halberstadt, Landkreis Harz, Harz Mountains, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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ᴡɪʟᴅʀᴏᴄᴋᴇʀ 🌍

May 9, 2022

Not all of the inscriptions on the stone seem original. The stone, about 50 meters from the main path, can be reached via a small trail. You don't stay here long ;-)

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Klausi

April 6, 2025

Where the Tönnigsberg bends to the southeast, with Börnecke just beyond it, at the very tip of Langenstein, there stands an inconspicuously small monument.
The Tönnigsstein, known to hardly anyone, where shepherds repeatedly quarreled, fought, and suffered.
Then the climax was approaching: Two shepherds approached with sheep. And each of them believed he was in the right that day, and neither gave in. In the end, one of them remained lying there.
The small memorial stone is meant to tell us: Here, once (in 1537), a shepherd was murdered.
The meadows of yesteryear are no longer there; hardly anyone knows what happened back then.
And now the question arises:
What is truth and what is legend?
Source: Display board

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Olaf

May 1, 2022

There was a dispute between two shepherds. Each claimed the other had crossed territory boundaries. After one shepherd died, the other had to set up this stone as atonement.

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Tönnigsstein (atonement or murder stone from 1537)

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